Komikernation Deutschland
| Title | Komikernation Deutschland [Comedian Nation Germany] |
| Subtitle | Die Beschneidungsdebatte 2012 in Deutschland und die weltweiten Folgen [The 2012 circumcision debate in Germany and the global consequences] |
| Author | Ulf Dunkel |
| Pages | 326 |
| Format | DIN A5 |
| Date | 2023-12-12 |
| Publisher | tredition, Hamburg |
| ISBN | 978-3-384-07397-6 |
Book description
The so-called German Circumcision Act was passed on 12. December 2012 decided by the German Bundestag. Since then, boys in Germany have had no rights when it comes to their genital autonomy.
Ulf Dunkel presents the short but in parts very heated Circumcision Debate that has been going on since July 2012 and analyzes the positions of those involved at the time. The main group of those involved was not heard at all — those affected: men who had their foreskins amputated as children for religious, traditional, hygienic or pseudo-medical reasons. To this day, many suffer from the loss of the sensitive, functional and protective foreskin tissue and thus also from the loss of erotic sensitivity.
An assessment of the meetings of the German Bundestag and the German Ethics Council shows how especially religious representatives argued with much half-knowledge and untrue claims for their own interests and against the interests of the helpless boys. However, hanging over everything in the Circumcision Debate at the time was the constant accusation of being anti-Semitic and Islamophobic if you advocate for the human rights of children.
Dunkel comes to a clear conclusion to the Circumcision Debate, which has not been silenced worldwide since 2012, as then-Chancellor Angela Merkel had wished.